THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 80, 11 May 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

NOTES AND NEWS. ' lAm Marjorie Molineaux, Welhngp**, is staying with friends i* Cfcrisi•kntl. 10m ©teenstreet, Christehureh, is the gpMt of Dr and M»s Anson, Lower Mt. .life* Eiloo* Tate and Miss Dorothy Auftstxong, Christehuwh, are spe*dißs a jbw iays i» Timaru. Mr a»d Mm S. J. Oollott, of Dunedin, loft by the "Warriwoo last week on a viwit to the ahief tourist resorts ia tie ISerth Island. They expect to be away tfcxee or four weeks. Miss Moore left by the Wahine om Saturday night for Wellington. Mr and Mis Cresswell arrived in Ohristehuveh froa* the north yesterday. Miss Maud Allen, the elassieal dan•or of whom we have heard and read r »* much, will be with us very soon. tShe i opens her season ia the Theatre Royal tfeas night week. A farewell social was tendered to the Tory Rev. Dean Regnault, who is about 4e depart for Rome, in St. Patrick's Sail, Waimate, on Friday evening. Father Aubrey voiced the objeet of the

gathering, namely, to the Dea* •ed-speed, and to present him, on beV half of the parishioners, with a service>aMe deek chair for use on the voyage. Mmbm N. Franci*, W. M. Hamilton, and F. Lundon also referred to the sterling qualities of the guest, who made a suitable reply. Musical items were i;eniered,by Misses Lawlor, M. Quinn, Ferriter and-Mrs* F. Lundon. After supper l»ad been served, the rest of the evening Was spent in dancing. The bazaar recently held at Halswell, for the purpose of liquidating, or partially liquidating, the debt on the Public Hall, has shown'a nett profit of X£2o, made up as follows:—Produce stall, £B6; fancy work, £36; plain sewing, £46 10/-; Christmas tree, etc., £l3 IV-; flower stall, £l2 3/-; refreshments, 428 10/-; sweets, £l2 10/-; sundries, £l6. The result is looked upon as a very satisfactory one, and the ladies who organised the sale deserve heartiest congratulations on the success that attended their efforts. At the Durham Street Methodist Church last night Mrs Ernest Firth sang "He was Despised/' and Mr Papakura, •who has been so successful in the competitions, sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee." M?s Sharp . (Wellington) j ftttd Master L. Cummins also rendered solos. Miss Easton gave a pianoforte 5010.,. and the Linwood orchestra igave several items. At the evening service musical items were again given by Mrs Sharp and Miss JBaston. At the afternoon service in the Cathedral Mr Papakura also sa»g "The Lord is my Light," aad several hymns in his native te»gue.

A Press Association cable from Louie* states'that corsets are being displayed in the West E*d which fit the :tgure in a tight form and reach down to the knees, the colours of the eor-. veto matching the wearer's gowns. Mr and Mrs Hay hurst, and their children, " who have been staying with ©elonel and Mrs Hayhurst, leave toBight for the North. The former re•eatly returned to New Zealand after an absence of some years in England. " "Mother's' Day" which was celebrated by a special service at the H.M.€.A. yesterday, is a pretty custom . whierfx has its origin in America. A «ertain Sunday in May is dedicated to "Mother's Day" and in the churches the clergymen all base their sermons on the strength a!nd purity of a mother's love. Special musie having the same theme, is produced, and at eaeh ehvreh ieor is a huge receptacle full of white flowers, —; white carnations for 9 *eference, —and every member of the ••aggregation takes and wears one for kits or her mother's sake.

.? A small dance will be given- by His .fceelleney the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool mext Wednesday evening in Auckland. On Thursday after•oen the Countess of Liverpool opened the new. hostel of the Y.W.C.A., and this afternoon she will present a banner te the first junior branch of the Overseas Club at Missßewes's Mount Eden College.

The "superfluous woman" is superfluous, not because there is no man to marry her, but because she does not fit herself .to become a wife. Mrs Archibald Colquhoun advances this argument in the "Nineteenth Century." She shows by official figures that between the ages of 15 and 35 there are only 7000 more single women in England and Wales than single men. The longevity of women, especially widows, «»der modern conditions of life and hygiene, is responsible for a gre&t deal of the so-called '' superfluity.'' By providing "homes from home" for men, the spinster or widow who is past marriage is interfering with the-matrix monial prospects of her younger sisters. Mrs Colquhoun's conclusion is that the best thing to do is to rear a different kind of woman.

In a lecture delivered at the Royal Society of Arts in London, Sir diaries Waldstein explained the methods by which fashions are set by "our domestic enemies," the manufacturers and designers of Speakjng of the part played in the making of fashion by suggestion, he said that the designer hypnotised the manufacturer into believing that an ugly thing was beautiful, the manufacturer practised this suggestion on the merchant, who again passed it on to the dressmaker, and the dressmaker to her customers, until the wives and daughters hypnotised their fathers and brothers and friends,

sand the wholo world bowed dew* to am ioeeentrie fashion. Aeeording to hi*, the spread of fashion depends ttpon t£e fact that each class strives to copy the elaas above it, "while the leading classes are assiduously, if not religiously, enfayed in fleeing from the contamination e£ those thej consider their social i»feriors. This oeaselesa striving is ti a l&rye extent aeeountable for the movowent and change in fashion and millinery. Apropos pale lemon-yellow, I must not negleet to signal the introduction of this shade into the world of faee powders (says a writer in an English exchange). Of recent V times the Parisiennes seem .to have gone mad over tinted faee powders and tinted Trigs! Just now the very latest idea is a pal# leaon-yellow faee powder which is supposed to give an extraordinary softness to the skin. An artistie, but highly unnatural, cyclainen-pinlj rogue is used in conjunction with the pale yellow powder, and the throat and neck ax* coated with flesh-pink and pure white powder; the peculiar make-up I am now t describing is intended for evening use — | only. I do not personally admire these eccentricities, but I must confess '.hat I have seen the lemon-yellow and cycla-men-pink .make-up look very effective; it was exploited by a fair-haired Austrian woman who possessed a splendid pair of dark grey eyes, and the pal® yellow faee powder seemed to melt away into the soft curls of hair whieh framed a lovely face. The new materials for dressy afternoon gowns are of a very attractive and becoming kind. The plain soft cloths are as smooth as satin and almost as light- in weight, while the various new whipcords, woollen bengalines and gabardine fabrics are woven with an exceptionally fine surface, so that they drape delightfully and lend themselves to the overskirts that are now so much worn. Among the most attractive features of the newest models of afternoon gowns are the various kinds of ribbon sashes. They are draped in many different ways, and carried out in an endless variety of contrasting colours.